[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       THE CLINTON YEARS: A LEGACY OF FAILURE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton is hosting a 2-day drug 
summit in El Paso, but 2 days hardly make up for his administration's 
3\1/2\ years of neglect. But let's see what the numbers really say: 
Total drug-related cases are up 30 percent; cocaine use is up 33 
percent; heroin use is up 77 percent; marijuana use is up 108 percent; 
and methamphetamine use is up an alarming 308 percent.
  No rhetoric, just the facts.
  But, Mr. Speaker, these facts have a brutal impacts on our society, 
especially our Nation's children.
  I've worked in the emergency rooms where these children come in. I've 
seen how these drugs can destroy generations of families.
  How has our President responded? He cut the DEA agents by 227.
  He shortened mandatory minimum sentences for convicted drug 
traffickers.
  And he even mothballed nine Coast Guard ships and seven aircraft that 
were needed to stem the flow of drugs into this country.
  No, Mr. Speaker, 2 days cannot make up for lapses of this magnitude. 
President Clinton has abandoned our Nation's drug control efforts and 
it is our children who will bear this heavy burden.

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